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adds bwn(4) driver for supporting Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets. o uses v4 firmware instead of v3. A port will be committed to create the bwn firmware module. o supports B/G and LP(low power) PHYs. o supports 32 / 64 bits DMA operations. o tested on big / little endian machines so should work on all architectures. It'd not connected to the build until the firmware port is committed.
2010-02-16 01:44:14 +00:00
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- Add Dell Wireless 1390 BCM4311 Mini PCI to supported list. PR: 154500 Submitted by: Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src at yandex.ru> Approved by: rwatson
2011-02-15 05:57:53 +00:00
.Dd February 15, 2011
adds bwn(4) driver for supporting Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets. o uses v4 firmware instead of v3. A port will be committed to create the bwn firmware module. o supports B/G and LP(low power) PHYs. o supports 32 / 64 bits DMA operations. o tested on big / little endian machines so should work on all architectures. It'd not connected to the build until the firmware port is committed.
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.Dt BWN 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm bwn
.Nd Broadcom BCM43xx IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel,
place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "device siba_bwn"
.Cd "device bwn"
.Cd "device wlan"
.Cd "device wlan_amrr"
.Cd "device firmware"
.Ed
.Pp
Alternatively, to load the driver as a
module at boot time, place the following line in
.Xr loader.conf 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
if_bwn_load="YES"
.Ed
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for Broadcom BCM43xx based
PCI/CardBus network adapters.
.Pp
It supports
.Cm station
and
.Cm monitor
mode operation.
Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time.
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
.Pp
This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work.
The
.Pa ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod
port needs to be installed before
.Xr ifconfig 8
will work.
Updates what firmware module should be used for LP (low power) PHY users and bumps date.
2010-02-26 00:37:49 +00:00
Most cases you need to use bwn_v4_ucode module but if you are a
LP (low power) PHY user please uses bwn_v4_lp_ucode module.
adds bwn(4) driver for supporting Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets. o uses v4 firmware instead of v3. A port will be committed to create the bwn firmware module. o supports B/G and LP(low power) PHYs. o supports 32 / 64 bits DMA operations. o tested on big / little endian machines so should work on all architectures. It'd not connected to the build until the firmware port is committed.
2010-02-16 01:44:14 +00:00
.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm
driver supports Broadcom BCM43xx based wireless devices, including:
mdoc: fix column names, indentation, column separation within each row, and quotation. Also make sure we have the same amount of columns in each row as the number of columns we specify in the head arguments. Reviewed by: brueffer
2012-04-07 09:05:30 +00:00
.Bl -column "Apple Airport Extreme" "BCM4306" "Mini PCI" "a/b/g"
.It Em "Card" Ta Em "Chip" Ta Em "Bus" Ta Em "Standard"
adds bwn(4) driver for supporting Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets. o uses v4 firmware instead of v3. A port will be committed to create the bwn firmware module. o supports B/G and LP(low power) PHYs. o supports 32 / 64 bits DMA operations. o tested on big / little endian machines so should work on all architectures. It'd not connected to the build until the firmware port is committed.
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.It "Apple Airport Extreme BCM4318 PCI b/g"
.It "ASUS WL-138g BCM4318 PCI b/g"
.It "Buffalo WLI-CB-G54S BCM4318 CardBus b/g"
mdoc: fix column names, indentation, column separation within each row, and quotation. Also make sure we have the same amount of columns in each row as the number of columns we specify in the head arguments. Reviewed by: brueffer
2012-04-07 09:05:30 +00:00
.It "Dell Wireless 1390 BCM4311 Mini PCI b/g"
adds bwn(4) driver for supporting Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets. o uses v4 firmware instead of v3. A port will be committed to create the bwn firmware module. o supports B/G and LP(low power) PHYs. o supports 32 / 64 bits DMA operations. o tested on big / little endian machines so should work on all architectures. It'd not connected to the build until the firmware port is committed.
2010-02-16 01:44:14 +00:00
.It "Dell Wireless 1470 BCM4318 Mini PCI b/g"
.It "Dell Truemobile 1400 BCM4309 Mini PCI b/g"
Document the fact that bwn works really well on the laptop I'm using right now (HP 6715b).
2010-10-12 19:00:18 +00:00
.It "HP Compaq 6715b BCM4312 PCI b/g"
adds bwn(4) driver for supporting Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets. o uses v4 firmware instead of v3. A port will be committed to create the bwn firmware module. o supports B/G and LP(low power) PHYs. o supports 32 / 64 bits DMA operations. o tested on big / little endian machines so should work on all architectures. It'd not connected to the build until the firmware port is committed.
2010-02-16 01:44:14 +00:00
.It "HP nx6125 BCM4319 PCI b/g"
.It "Linksys WPC54G Ver 3 BCM4318 CardBus b/g"
.It "Linksys WPC54GS Ver 2 BCM4318 CardBus b/g"
.It "US Robotics 5411 BCM4318 CardBus b/g"
.El
Mentions cases when bwi(4) driver should be used that it only wrote about chipset type instead of card names because it's not easy to sort names what cards use these chipsets. Pointed by: imp
2010-09-11 21:49:28 +00:00
.Pp
Fixes spellings and uses the better sentence. While I'm here bumps date. Pointed by: imp, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src at yandex dot ru>
2010-09-14 23:27:06 +00:00
Users of older Broadcom chipsets (BCM4301, BCM4303 and BCM4306 rev 2)
must use
Mentions cases when bwi(4) driver should be used that it only wrote about chipset type instead of card names because it's not easy to sort names what cards use these chipsets. Pointed by: imp
2010-09-11 21:49:28 +00:00
.Xr bwi 4
Fixes spellings and uses the better sentence. While I'm here bumps date. Pointed by: imp, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src at yandex dot ru>
2010-09-14 23:27:06 +00:00
because the v4 version of the firmware does not support these chips.
The newer firmware is too big to fit into these old chips.
adds bwn(4) driver for supporting Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets. o uses v4 firmware instead of v3. A port will be committed to create the bwn firmware module. o supports B/G and LP(low power) PHYs. o supports 32 / 64 bits DMA operations. o tested on big / little endian machines so should work on all architectures. It'd not connected to the build until the firmware port is committed.
2010-02-16 01:44:14 +00:00
.Sh EXAMPLES
Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
.Bd -literal -offset indent
ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwn0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e
netmask 0xffffff00
.Ed
.Pp
Join a specific BSS network with network name
.Dq Li my_net :
.Pp
.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwn0 ssid my_net up"
.Pp
Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwn0 ssid my_net \e
wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up
.Ed
Adds LOADER TUNABLES section to mention knobs which could be controlled by loader(8) interface.
2010-09-06 22:23:35 +00:00
.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
Tunables can be set at the
.Xr loader 8
prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
.Xr loader.conf 5 .
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Va hw.bwn.msi_disable
This tunable disables MSI support on the hardware.
The default value is 0.
.It Va hw.bwn.usedma
This tunable enables DMA operations on the hardware.
If the value is 0, PIO mode would be used.
The default value is 1.
.El
adds bwn(4) driver for supporting Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets. o uses v4 firmware instead of v3. A port will be committed to create the bwn firmware module. o supports B/G and LP(low power) PHYs. o supports 32 / 64 bits DMA operations. o tested on big / little endian machines so should work on all architectures. It'd not connected to the build until the firmware port is committed.
2010-02-16 01:44:14 +00:00
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr arp 4 ,
Adds bwi(4) at SEE ALSO section because some old devices aren't supported by the bwn(4) firmware that as fas as I know the vendor dropped its support. Bumps date also.
2010-09-06 22:02:08 +00:00
.Xr bwi 4 ,
adds bwn(4) driver for supporting Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets. o uses v4 firmware instead of v3. A port will be committed to create the bwn firmware module. o supports B/G and LP(low power) PHYs. o supports 32 / 64 bits DMA operations. o tested on big / little endian machines so should work on all architectures. It'd not connected to the build until the firmware port is committed.
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.Xr cardbus 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr wlan 4 ,
.Xr wlan_amrr 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
.Xr wpa_supplicant 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
bwn(4) will first appear in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. MFC after: 1 week
2010-04-29 18:32:14 +00:00
.Fx 8.1 .
adds bwn(4) driver for supporting Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets. o uses v4 firmware instead of v3. A port will be committed to create the bwn firmware module. o supports B/G and LP(low power) PHYs. o supports 32 / 64 bits DMA operations. o tested on big / little endian machines so should work on all architectures. It'd not connected to the build until the firmware port is committed.
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.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Weongyo Jeong
.Aq weongyo@FreeBSD.org .
.\".Sh BUGS
.\"Some card based on the BCM4306 and BCM4309 chips do not work properly
.\"on channel 1, 2 and 3.
mdoc: reorder sections consistently
2011-06-02 09:56:53 +00:00
.Sh CAVEATS
Some LP PHY devices have DMA operation problems that in that case try to
use PIO mode.
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